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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.